Ring! Ring! Mobile Thief's Luck Runs Out
By Malai FadleyRizal

Bandar Seri Begawan - A 23-year-old Vietnamese construction worker who sustained minor injuries when his co-workers discovered that he had stolen one of their mobile phones was given another slap on the face this week.

The Bandar Magistrate's Court on Thursday sentenced Than Van Tuan to two months' jail after he pleaded guilty to stealing his co-workers' belongings. He had been working, at a construction site in Kg Rataie, Temburong for about two months.

According to Deputy Public Prosecutor Christopher Ng, the defendant sneaked into the workers' quarters one day in March and took a Nokia N70 mobile phone from a hag while his co-workers were in the washroom.

On March 19, the defendant stole a Nokia mobile phone charger, which was inside another co-worker's hag.

However, it was on March 26 that the defendant's luck had run out. When the owner of the Nokia N70 dialed his own number using another mobile, he discovered that the phone was with the defendant.

Several workers ganged up to detain the defendant before the foreman at the site handed him over to the police. The court was told that the defendant had sustained minor injuries and was treated at RIPAS Hospital while in custody. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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